Ted "Deaths of Despair" Bauer

All you have to do is look at companies who said "Work from home forever!" pulling it back right now and you understand how the whole "employees have the power now!" argument is really going.

Jamie Dimon is now saying that mandated organizational vaccinations might be illegal. Since probably 89% of other CEOs wish they were Jamie Dimon, I feel like that argument is going to come to a pretty rapid close.

"The authors argue that while tech stars hog the spotlight, small-business entrepreneurs—especially Black, brown, female, and older founders—make up a significant portion of the U.S. economy and run companies that operate in and benefit their communities."

Accurate.https://twitter.com/xtxul/status/1419796403321065477 …

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/amp/nba/news/nba-mock-draft-2021-cade-cunningham-jalen-green/1m3sz3uyg8qsx1gylfv8b4iqoa …

Why not 2 doses?https://twitter.com/gavinnewsom/status/1419678924380860421 …

Just food for thought.

A lot of people are lonely, whether or not they admit it. Wouldn’t helping them out check the “service” box for you in a potentially more-tangible way, because you know the person directly?

Could that also be a form of “service” we consider? It’s not a soup kitchen, but it might have just as much value in some ways.

What if, instead, we thought of “service” in that way — but also as in, checking in on people, seeing how they are doing, seeing if they are lonely, seeing if they want to connect, seeing what they need from others?

or Habitat, or whatever. We think of it as “Here is some time we are dedicating to those who are less fortunate.” I have never Googled the exact definition of “service,” but I assume it’s something akin to that, no?

then I’ll probably want to drink, or some shame spiral will be created, and that’s not something I can easily deal with. I went back for a second to the sermon itself, and one thing my pastor said was … we often constitute “service” as going to a mission,

couple you have them building a nursery for an impending child. So that only increased my own feelings of loneliness, but I’m also not going to reach out to someone in a position where I know they won’t really be able to respond, because that’s going to make me feel worse, and

Then, later in the day I actually felt kinda lonely, and I was going to reach out to this small group I have through that church, but I realized across the other three couples, you had one baptism going on, you had one kid in the hospital with breathing issues, and in the third

a few Subdivision Sarahs and Sammys were looking at their phones, which is the essence of not being present, which is part of why we have this whole loneliness epidemic, even if people deny it exists. So that was sad.

My pastor is doing a sermon series on loneliness right now. We exchanged a couple of emails about it before he did the first sermon, which was yesterday. It was a good to great sermon, and the sad part is that if you looked around the church,